in the neighborhood of

Also, in the region of. Approximately, about, as in They paid in the neighborhood of a million dollars, or I don't know exactly what the exchange rate is-somewhere in the region of 95 yen to the dollar . The first expression dates from the mid-1800s, the variant from the mid-1900s.

It's increasingly difficult to persuade parish shoppers that their neighborhood churches might have something to offer when competitive behemoths, kind of like ecclesial WalMart or Target stores, offer enticing bargains just a few stops down the interstate.

At the neighborhood level, diversity often is feared as meaning that "outsiders" have arrived and will soon replace the previous population--which itself, in many cases, had replaced another population one or two generations earlier.

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